The Mist by Stephen King5/22/2023 ![]() David leads the "normal group" as they try to fend off the deadly forces outside the store as well-as Carmody's increasingly bloodthirsty mob within (whose battle cry is "expiation!"). Her Fred Phelps-esque hate speech polarizes the grocery store community, ultimately creating two factions with fundamentally different ideas as to how to respond to the increasingly desperate situation. Carmody's vocal pronouncements of a "vengeful, Old Testament God" unleashing his wrath through these "plagues" begins to amass followers in a cultish, Lord of the Flies type way. Carmody explains the mist and its apparent monsters in terms of the apocalypse: "It's the end of days! It's death! It's judgment day! Star Wormwood blazes!"Īs things go from bad to worse and the body count rises, Mrs. ![]() ![]() Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden)-who provides one of the most hateful and vicious "Christian" characters in recent cinematic history. The most interesting of these characters is a Bible-toting, fire-and-brimstone spewing shrew named Mrs. The grocery store assortment of townsfolk includes heroic alpha male David (Thomas Jane) and his young son (Nathan Gamble), supermarket manager Ollie (the fantastic Toby Jones), a newcomer to the town (Laurie Holden), and a smattering of other slice-of-life stereotypes (young, old, smart, stupid, brawny, nerdy, etc). ![]() Thomas Jane as David Drayton, Nathan Gamble as Billy ![]()
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